Trace geochemistry of the Early to Late Cretaceous deposits of the Grajcarek thrust-sheets - a palaeoenviromental approach (Male Pieniny Mts., Pieniny Klippen Belt, Poland): reply

摘要

Gedl (2012) question the validity of our correlation of the geochemical boundary between the Albian/Cenomanian and Turanian deposits from the Grajcarek thrust-sheets of the Pieniny Klippen Belt (PKB), with that between similar deposits from the Polish Outer Carpathians. This boundary determines the appearance of the Turanian red shales, known as the Cretaceous Oceanic Red Beds (CORB). They occur in all successions of the Outer Carpathians and Grajcarek thrust-sheets of the PKB. In carbonate successions of the PKB, the red marls of the Jaworki Formation are the equivalent of the CORB.